Quotes with satisfy

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• The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

  Wyndham Lewis
  British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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• The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)

  Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.

  Margaret Drabble
  English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• automatically
• conversation
• politically
• egalitarian
• communities
• individuals

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